Comments on: UMD a Waste of Time, Money and Investment, Says Perry

By: Leopardchen

Leopardchen — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:12:00 +0000

Seriously, to blame UMD for the lackluster sales of PSP games is blatantly stupid. It’s the games themselfes for the most part. There simply ought to be better games.

UMD load times aren’t so much of an issue, and never really were that bad. Besides, the new PSP model UMD cache takes care of some load time issues.

Furthermore, Sony *can’t* just drop UMDs! They just can’t. The PSP is designed to use UMDs for christs sake. If I had a penny for every analyst who keeps complaining about the evil UMD I would be rich soon. Don’t stop!

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:39:56 +0000

I’m not at all interested in the PSP, which makes me hate Square and Konami even more for putting out games for it I MUST own; The two Star Ocean remakes and Silent Hill: Origins. I don’t forsee much use for the system beyond those except maybe as a makeshift MP3 player, but yet I’m still trying to track down a used one in my price range. Just goes to show you, any system can become a must-have if the right game is on it.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:26:51 +0000

Xboxlenny some of the stuff you say literally makes me laugh out load. A piece of plastic is cheaper than flash memory. Fact.

By: Xboxlenny

Xboxlenny — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:26:09 +0000

UMD is soon dead. Its the nail in the coffin. They should switch to cartridge based. The cost saved on mechanics on the UMD drive, would more than make up for the cheap cost of Flash memory cartridges, flash memory is everywhere now, you get more storage, reliable storage, and its getting cheaper and cheaper for more space. its common sence flash memory is the way to go.

Those UMD disks arent cheaper because thats another format u have to pay for. The plastic alone on one of those UMD disk covers would make a few flash cartridges.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:25:31 +0000

Xboxlenny said: 5. video out port to connect to TV.

The new PSP has that.

By: Norbit

Norbit — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:16:07 +0000

“Then, hopefully, the platform will actually get enough interest so that people will make a game specifically for it,”

Eh? Is 25m+ sales not enough?

He is right that it would be better system without an optical disk (although there isn’t really much wrong with it anyway) but he has completely missed one very important fact. He says it would cut manufacturing costs which it would but Sony’s profit on game sales would take a huge hit because its a damn sight more expensive to manufacture a cartridge than a disk.

By: Xboxlenny

Xboxlenny — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:07:33 +0000

PSP fixes should be:

1. Touch screen (From DS)
2. Flash memory storage instead of UMD
3. wireless G
4. Optional USB/wireless conection for PS2/PS3 controler
5. video out port to connect to TV.
6. better video support regular media, Avi/Mpg.
7. input microphone for voice recozation in games. (From DS)

This would make one awesome PSP, I already own a PSP and a DS. the PSP has the power, the DS has the convience of touch screen and interactive games.

By: weclock

weclock — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:31:59 +0000

He’s not the only one.